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Atlas Shrugged is a 1957 novel by Ayn Rand. It is her longest novel, the fourth and final one published during her lifetime, and the one she considered her magnum opus in the realm of fiction writing. [ 1 ]
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In 1958, Rand delivered a series private lectures about writing fiction. A successful novelist, playwright and screenwriter, Rand had released her last novel, Atlas Shrugged, the previous year. Rand's heir (and lecture attendee) Leonard Peikoff says in his introduction for the book that she "was at the peak of her powers as a novelist". [1]
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand's most famous -- and some say most ponderous -- novel may soon become a movie. However, objectivists, libertarians and assorted Rand fans might want to hold off on taking ...
The tenor of the criticism for her first nonfiction book, For the New Intellectual, was similar to that for Atlas Shrugged. [157] Philosopher Sidney Hook likened her certainty to "the way philosophy is written in the Soviet Union", [ 158 ] and author Gore Vidal called her viewpoint "nearly perfect in its immorality". [ 159 ]
The idea of creating a collection of Rand's essays initially came from Bennett Cerf of Random House, who had published two of Rand's previous books, Atlas Shrugged and For the New Intellectual. Rand proposed a collection of articles to be titled The Fascist New Frontier , after a Ford Hall Forum speech she had given criticizing the views of ...
In 2009, For Beginners, LLC released Ayn Rand for Beginners by Andrew Bernstein as part of its ... For Beginners graphic nonfiction comic book series. The illustrations by Own Brozman included a number of drawings of Galt in the section discussing Atlas Shrugged. From 2011 to 2014, a movie adaptation of Atlas Shrugged was released in three ...
The Randian hero is a ubiquitous figure in the fiction of 20th-century novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand, most famously in the figures of The Fountainhead ' s Howard Roark and Atlas Shrugged ' s John Galt. Rand's self-declared purpose in writing fiction was to project an "ideal man"—a man who perseveres to achieve his values, and only his ...